Online Gambling: Modern entertainment or highly addictive game?

[taufik123]

This is also what worries me because nowadays online gambling forms are so easy to access and they are advertised loudly reported online. Our children may not be able to create accounts to play directly on betting sites, but they can easily access gambling games with just a phone.

Now there are many examples that happen, how children's games become gambling games that indirectly make children play them.

And also there is no ban from the government about games that contain gambling, such as High Domino Island which in real terms it is a slot gambling game,
dominoes and the like But it is still allowed and according to the government where I live it is just a game.

Even though, there have been many cases of losses and becoming addicts that occur because of the game.
Minors will be addicted to gambling type games and they cannot control it.

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[iv4n]

What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Gambling has always been highly addictive, especially when people feel the winning streak, we get the feeling that we can win all the time... even after losing a bunch of times we still believe that "our moment" is very close.

I will not force the difference between traditional and online gambling, each of us has some preferences. Slots nowadays are much more interesting than slots from 20 years ago, traditional games are still here, but many of them have different versions with some add-ons. So we can definitely say that gambling games these days are much more interesting than games from before.

The majority of people here on the forum are only online gamblers, and I believe that many of us will never stop gambling online.

[Zoomic]

Anyone can get addicted irrespective of which gambling style you choose to adopt. There are thousands of people who think online gambling is boring and would choose to patronize physical gambling casinos or shops over online gambling platforms, shouldn't we be worried about the safety of these set of people too? Rather than worry over the style of gambling one chose to adopt, same energy should be channelled to advocating for a responsible gambling style where the gamblers remain safe and free from any gambling related issues while gambling. Addiction doesn't care what style you adopt, as long as you gamble carelessly, you will definitely get into trouble. Online gambling has come to stay and those who value its offer would go for it. No matter what method you go for, always remember to gamble wisely.

[bittraffic]

What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Gambling has always been highly addictive, especially when people feel the winning streak, we get the feeling that we can win all the time... even after losing a bunch of times we still believe that "our moment" is very close.

I will not force the difference between traditional and online gambling, each of us has some preferences. Slots nowadays are much more interesting than slots from 20 years ago, traditional games are still here, but many of them have different versions with some add-ons. So we can definitely say that gambling games these days are much more interesting than games from before.

The majority of people here on the forum are only online gamblers, and I believe that many of us will never stop gambling online.

I don't see that happening anymore as well. Sometimes the first thing to do upon waking up is check whether our bets win using our phones. We log on to our laptops and then we also log in using our phones so wherever we go our addiction comes along even when we commute the train, we browse our phones. Our phones are fueling the addiction as well.

[Obim34]

For me, it's addictive but if you can control yourself when gambling it can be considered just a pastime or let say entertainment. However, in that case, there's a possibility of becoming addicted to gambling. Here in our area (the Philippines) there weren't as many streamers promoting gambling before. Now, well-known online streamers like those who stream Dota and ML are now casino streamers, which is why it's not surprising that there are a lot of gambling addicts here in the Philippines because of those streamers and influencers who promots gambling.

We should understand that whatever comes with much benefits also gets attached to some certain disadvantages. Online gambling was introduced with the actual motive of making gambling easier and faster, on a more conducive environment but unfortunate how it has increased the amount of addicted players, in this case who should be blamed? It becomes our obligation to gamble and not get addicted. The reason for those promotion and marketing is to generate enough revenue, we all know these companies as well pay taxes so they require more users to come in, every other things now rely on us to get addicted or not.

[TravelMug]


Besides, online gambling games do not require one person to observe the other, so they become very simple. Players seem to be absorbed in the virtual world and forget about the people around them, the games continue one after another, so they are more likely to become addicted to games on the screen. What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Of course there is a big difference when you play on traditional land base casino. But as far as playing online and it affect my gambling habits? I will say no? Still gambling per se and it's either you win or lose, simply as that. There are gamblers though who prefer online as there are advantage for them, as it is easily and readily available. But if you go on a brick and mortar casinos, the atmosphere is different, you can talk to your fellow gamblers, and you socialize that online casinos can't give you. And if ever I will be given the chance, I still prefer to go and play on land base. Me and my wife, if we have time, will go on weekends and play and have some fun and get away from the stress.

[aioc]

What is addictive tendss to be entertaining because what's the point of doing it over and over again if we are not enjoying it so I would say online gambling is both addictive and entertaining.

Casinos promote themselves as entertainment portal and they made sure that before they release the platform they make sure to test it for their users to enjoy it.

Casinos wants you to enjoy the game because the more you enjoy the more money that you are going to shelve to use the platform.

[dansus021]

In my opinion Online gambling can be both modern entertainment and highly addictive. For some, it's a fun way to pass the time and potentially win money, like i said on bunch of previous thread before for fun only, but for others, it can become a compulsive behavior leading to financial and personal problems so both of them is crazy in mu opinion.

If you hesitate about playing gamble i think the best option is too stay away from it

[danadc]

In my opinion Online gambling can be both modern entertainment and highly addictive. For some, it's a fun way to pass the time and potentially win money, like i said on bunch of previous thread before for fun only, but for others, it can become a compulsive behavior leading to financial and personal problems so both of them is crazy in mu opinion.

If you hesitate about playing gamble i think the best option is too stay away from it

It is very true, when things are not done well you have many problems, the worst thing is falling into addiction because that really destroys the person, gambling when not taken with care is the most difficult thing in the world because When we are looking for the best way to have fun things can turn out the other way, instead of digesting ourselves we will spend moments of anger, stress and above all losing money, so that is what we must take care of in any way, for that reason when we We look for a way to do anything well in a casino. It is better to be careful with what we must take care of most, our money, our emotions because emotions are what make us lose in any case.

Sometimes I have to buy a game because I feel like I'm spending a lot of money and that doesn't suit me.

[Samlucky O]

What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Online or tradition gambling all are thesame. I don't feel differently when playing the both. my gambling habits when I play online does not affect me. Though in between both of them, online gambling is likely to be more addictive than traditional because whenever you want to play online gambling you always find your account regularly without undermining the lost and the shortage of money in your bank but in traditional game you only play with what you can afford to lose with. The only thing that I know that makes them thesame is the ability to gamble with your fund, which you either win or lose.

[UchihaSarada]

Our children may not be able to create accounts to play directly on betting sites, but they can easily access gambling games with just a phone.

It's actually same lol, try to elaborate if there's a difference between the two.

What I mean is that betting sites need you to register an account and have an age limit to join, KYC and add payment methods to deposit money. Many children cannot do these things, so it is difficult for them to access gambling on these platforms.

However, with gambling games it is a different story. They can be easily downloaded and played on the phone. Although they do not use real money to play, they have coin loading mechanisms to play or participate in in-game events that require coins (purchased with real money) to be able to participate. This is also an indirect form of gambling.

[348Judah]

The proliferation of online gambling in recent years has opened a new era for the gambling industry. According to statistics, there are about 800 companies in the world, with servers in 70 different countries providing more than 4,000 virtual slot machines, 600 virtual casino points, 300 bingo sites, 260 sports betting sites and 240 online poker points.

Am not against your statistics, but you would have given us the source to them, this may as well help us in reading further to learn more on other aspect in which you may not have emphasized on, as we know, gambling industry  has gained more popularity ever since the onset of the online digital era of crypto casinos, ,many organizations were also considering prospects in establishing a gambling platform till now.

With gambling increasingly legalized in many countries, this can be considered a modern entertainment game.

Assuming if the government and many other individual gamblers understand this statement that gambling is a form of entertainment, maybe they wouldn't have seen it in such approach they have already given to it, whereby you discover in some countries, it's illegal to gamble.

[el kaka22]

Right, this is once again all depends on the person and not a default statement can be given for all of it at once. Some people will use it as a modern entertainment, some people will find it highly addictive. I am pretty sure that you can find someone who can bet for an hour, and never want to bet again because that person didn't find it fun, even if they won money or not, and you can find someone who gambles for just 15 minutes, but can't stop gambling for all their life and get addicted to it.

This is why we should remember that we are not going to end up with anything that would be similar in all people, if you want to know if it is this or that, then you need to remember the answer is different in every different person.

[qwertyup23]

Besides, online gambling games do not require one person to observe the other, so they become very simple. Players seem to be absorbed in the virtual world and forget about the people around them, the games continue one after another, so they are more likely to become addicted to games on the screen. What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

With the emergence of the popularity of online gambling, it seems that everyone is curious about it which creates a chain reaction among new users.

I think there has to be some sort of control over the advertisements of online gambling. Almost all social media platforms have hired influencers and YouTubers to advertise different online gambling platforms. In addition, these advertisements tend to influence the public about its perception being safe with all the free spins, rewards, etc. that it offers. Again, this creates a very dangerous precedent to the young as it also breaks their curiosity by trying it.

Online gambling is very different from physical gambling as there are different purposes. When a person tries gambling on an online platform, they mainly do it for the profit. There is no socialization involved and the only thing that is present is the player and the gambling game. In a physical casino, there happens to be socialization among the people and it creates this environment where people would get to meet and talk among each other.

[dansus021]

Using data visualization tools such as graphs and charts to display gambling habits over time could indeed be a helpful tool in addressing gambling addiction and promoting responsible gambling practices. The point is that online gambling is highly additive game for some people that who cant control it but gambling itself is evolving to become the modern entertainment it is up to you, categorize gambling as modern entertainment or high addicitive game but for me today gambling is have both side.

[fullhdpixel]

I almost got carried away the first time that I started gambling online, because of the varieties of games and I can gamble even on my bed, but I became very cautious of myself when I noticed a strange change in my attitude towards gambling. This was how I could control myself, so what I have to say is that online casino, can make someone get addicted easily compared to land based casinos.

Well, it's a double-edged sword where convenience comes with making it easier to form a gambling addiction. We are easily stimulated to try different games when we play online. This is very dangerous and it is difficult for us to control our behavior, it's like mindlessly watching Youtube or scrolling through Tiktok.

There are people who can get easily attached to what they are doing but some are not like that. Both online and offline gambling had different games to choose from but it's only optional to try the other after the first one. At first, trying them looks fun but we will realize later on that it is also money-consuming.

This is why I ended up sticking on one game. Forms are only easy to access but there are extra verifications that only people who are on legal age can answer. Ads that we see will also depend on our interests. If we are into gambling, we can see lots of gambling ads as well. As long as we don't use the device of our kids, I don't think they will get exposed to it.

[shasan]

I think online gambling is both modern/digital entertainment and at the same time, it is a highly addictive game. When we take entertainment we have to spend money in the same way at online gambling. 

[Assface16678]

It depends on the gambler or the people. You know, gambling was originally created for entertainment in the past until they involved money in it and it became a hobby for many people, especially rich people. So the same goes with modern gambling or online casinos. It is made for people to easily access the gambling games they want to play for entertainment, but it will change if the gambler experiences uncontrollable emotions and minds that will push him to keep on gambling without caring about how much money he is losing or how far he's going.

Online casinos truly provide efficiency and convenience in order for us to play the gambling games we want, but of course it's our responsibility to take control and keep the entertainment of gambling, not just the mindset to earn or to hope that you will hit a jackpot and change your life. Don't rely on gambling because it will not give you what you've desired unless you are very lucky.

[entertheabyss]

I think online gambling is both modern/digital entertainment and at the same time, it is a highly addictive game. When we take entertainment we have to spend money in the same way at online gambling. 

Entertainment, we should be ready ourselves for the future. Money is basis of our findings and we should be extremely careful with the system. This current days are complicated and we ought to know what's coming for us because the system can be the one to promise and fail us at the same time. Online gambling have complicated everything, we're now even just as those gambling addicts. Online gambling have made everything accessible for us, we just have to know what's profitable for us.

[Betwrong]

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This is a very correct clarification. Everyone blames online gambling for its easy accessibility, but everyone forgets the other side of this: leaving is also easy. And if we are talking about offline gambling, then I can hardly imagine how a gambler, having lost his deposit faster than he expected, immediately leaves the casino. Most likely, he will take more money (from a credit card or something else) because he is forced to “recoup” his costs of getting to the casino and still having fun.
Everything is as always: advantages from a certain angle can be regarded as disadvantages and vice versa.

Yes, we shouldn't ever forget look at things from another angle. Easy accessibility of online gambling can surely be counterbalanced by the ease of exit.

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Play in the comfort of your home so they say. I sometimes eat my meal in front of the desktop so I won't miss a thing. Users today are doing the sane thing while playing and at the same time twitching.

But it's entirely different when you have to travel a few miles and dress up for the night to play cards on the table. But I think it's more fun to actually go out than online if I had the choice I would prefer to go out and have a drink and chat with real people so that we can meet eye to eye.

And no one, absolutely no one has the right to blame you, mate. If you enjoy it like that, if you like playing with real people instead of icons on computer screen, then do it that way. I assume you are talking about poker? I just want to say that I personally can see real people behind those icons. Especially when we talk to each other in the chat box. So, for me it's no different from a game inside a brick and mortar casino.